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If Sparkleshare develops some momentum, you could easily see third-parties compete to offer Sparkleshare storage as a service, in a similar manner to how Dropbox works today.
Exactly, right now dropbox is 9.95/month for 2Gig and frankly overpriced. I would love to have that right now at 1.99/month. Maybe unreasonable... but I like competition.
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If Sparkleshare develops some momentum, you could easily see third-parties compete to offer Sparkleshare storage as a service, in a similar manner to how Dropbox works today.
You could. But you'd only introduce more variables for the enduser. All of a sudden you'd have to decide which third-party service to sign up for, and many of them might just be a guy in a basement running the service to pay for college tuition. You'd have to check up on this before you know for sure. The complete setup procedure for dropbox is as follows: 1) Navigate to dropbox.com 2) click download 3) doubleclick t…
Isn't this the same for everything? What you seem to be advocating is that we centralize everything so that no one has to think or research when making purchases.
> This is very hard to compete with in terms of ease of use. No strange choices to make, no weird preferences to fill out, no problems. It just works.
But you have to decide to use DropBox in the first place. The crux of your argument seems to be that DropBox is easy because they are the only choice.
Using that logic, one could make the case that the entire Internet should run off of a single email provider with branded client software.
OMFG! I've been hoping for THIS exact technology. I wanted to set up dropbox like environments on all my machines so I can share unlimited data across my LAN this way every single machine acts as a back-up for every other machine on my entire lan set up when it comes to data I very much care for (My Documents, All my photos, etc.) Its not much, 20GB total? If that much. I can even have some machines mirror that to ex…
It is already there. Try Tonido distributed backup.
OMFG! I've been hoping for THIS exact technology. I wanted to set up dropbox like environments on all my machines so I can share unlimited data across my LAN this way every single machine acts as a back-up for every other machine on my entire lan set up when it comes to data I very much care for (My Documents, All my photos, etc.) Its not much, 20GB total? If that much. I can even have some machines mirror that to ex…
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You could. But you'd only introduce more variables for the enduser. All of a sudden you'd have to decide which third-party service to sign up for, and many of them might just be a guy in a basement running the service to pay for college tuition. You'd have to check up on this before you know for sure. The complete setup procedure for dropbox is as follows: 1) Navigate to dropbox.com 2) click download 3) doubleclick t…
> All of a sudden you'd have to decide which third-party service to sign up for, and many of them might just be a guy in a basement running the service to pay for college tuition. You'd have to check up on this before you know for sure. Isn't this the same for everything ? What you seem to be advocating is that we centralize everything so that no one has to think or research when making purchases. > This is very hard…
What makes dropbox so successful is the utter simplicity of something that used to be hard. The internet is littered with companies that have tried to solve this problem but didn't gain traction because it didn't just work. Dropbox is (to my knowledge) the first service of its kind that you install and forget. The thing that most people forget on HN is that 95% of the population don't even know what a server is - and they don't care.
The thing is, sadly, that open source has a pretty dismal track record of creating software that is easy and intuitive to use. There are many reasons for this. One is that open source software tends to be targeted towards developers instead of end users. Another is that it's often design by committee and mailing lists.
I'm not saying that this project doesn't have merit, or that it wont work. I'm just saying that they'll never be able to target my mom.
I'm fairly excited about this, I hope it's "just works" appeal come's close to the DropBox experience. I run the IT shop for a non-profit, which has just started to expand globally. I've been brought in to help ease the pain. We've got nearly everything web-based, except for the damn "shared drive". We just can't afford to set up a permanent VPN connection to all of our new offices (and all of the road-warriors)... n…
Try http://www.tonido.com . It offers a remote drive feature. Will satisfy all your requirements listed here.
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If Sparkleshare develops some momentum, you could easily see third-parties compete to offer Sparkleshare storage as a service, in a similar manner to how Dropbox works today.
Exactly, right now dropbox is 9.95/month for 2Gig and frankly overpriced. I would love to have that right now at 1.99/month. Maybe unreasonable... but I like competition.
Why C-sharp / mono ?? This could almost be done (on Linux at least) with a copy of rsync, git (for the revision control) and a shell script.
Er, well, yeah, but you'd be polling almost constantly if you're trying to emulate what Dropbox does. I don't know exactly how Dropbox knows when I add or change a file -- I assume it ties in to the kernel. Also, rsync wouldn't work over HTTP, which is a big disadvantage in some of the environments I've been working in lately.
My big question, though: why isn't someone doing this for headless servers? Why do they always assume people just want this for desktops? At least you can hack a headless version of Dropbox on Linux.
This isn't a threat to dropbox becaue (as I read it) you have to set up your own server, or maybe hook up on a friends server. While this is certainly a great feature that a lot of people will value, the beauty of dropbox is that it just works. Without you having to install a server. I see the following obstacles with installing a server for sparkleshare: 1) You need a server. This might be obvious, but normal people…
This isn't a threat to dropbox becaue (as I read it) you have to set up your own server, or maybe hook up on a friends server. While this is certainly a great feature that a lot of people will value, the beauty of dropbox is that it just works. Without you having to install a server. I see the following obstacles with installing a server for sparkleshare: 1) You need a server. This might be obvious, but normal people…